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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

William James

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy

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